I called attention to President Obama's inappropriate/bogus chivalry here and here.

Women serving in positions of power are subject to the same criticisms as men, and efforts to defend them that are premised on the idea that women deserve special protection, solicitude, or respect or that deploy metaphors from the realm of domestic violence are perversely implying that women do not belong in power. It is absolutely disgusting to defend Susan Rice this way. If we were required to moderate our criticism of women in power, we would need to oppose having women in power in order to preserve our freedom as American citizens.

The suggestion — even implicit — that there is a requirement like this is offensive and retrograde.

If she can't stand to be questioned, she needs to resign. If Obama doesn't trust her to be questioned, he should ask her to spend more time with her family. That sounds more the sort of thing he probably thinks she should be doing anyway.

So a group of mostly black female Democrats accuses two white male Republicans of racism and sexism. Yawn.

I like how the say McCain is not very bright because he graduated near the bottom of his Naval Academy class. That was pretty funny.

According to McCain's military records, his IQ is 133, which is pretty high, especially for a politician. I'd say Susan Rice was not very bright to go let the Obama administration use her to disseminate lies to the public. She might be very book smart, but she's not bright.

My experience has been that most of the individual women I have met and worked with and loved through the years have been smart. There appears to be a very large cohort with which I have not been acquainted (except in some sense through this blog) that is very dumb and subject to being moved by this bullshit and subject to uttering it. As the progressives are wont to say, sad.

The "men bad, women good" paradigm of family violence died when people had the guts to acknowledge lesbian battery. The more recent research is grounded in measurement rather than theory and it focuses on the amount of time that each partner spends abusing or being abused. The research looks at how the types of abuse differ but that abusive relationships are generally reciprocally abusive.

People who speak from a different, outdated paradigm are not respecting the science.

He exploited her loyalty and now he defends her honor. To be fair, she is either incompetent or a willing conspirator.

As for the feminists, I don't think they appreciate a reasonable distinction between men and women.

As for the politicians, she will remain opportunistic forevermore.

Oh, and the trail leads to Obama. He shouldn't concern himself with the process. He will be interrogated to discern his role in Benghazi after his subordinates' testimonies. However, unlike Watergate, people actually died. This is more like Fast and Furious, or Gunrunner, or suicidal ROE.

Have patience, Obama. You're next. While corruption is progressive, it is only conclusive with a slight majority. There is still sufficient will and means among Americans to hold individuals accountable when they run amuck.

all us real men have known for a long time, forever, that the poor, pitiful, emotionally and physically frail female was never meant for this rough an tumble world except to have babies and cook dinner (with some help, of course).

President Obama, as a real man, is right to try and protect Susan Rice from attack by the ogres of the right. She, nor any other female, should be subject to these harsh realities. Obama, being a REAL MAN, repels such attacks as water falls off a goose's feathers.

The real tragedy of all this is that a few wild eyed, radical feminists convinced a genearation of women that they should go out into this hostile world and set themselves up for such attacks. It's like telling a lamb to mingle with wolves.

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For extra crispy woman prepare your batter with cold water instead of milk.

This has nothing to do with genuine belief in what they're saying, and everything to do with service to the party. Appeals to reason are fruitless because reason has nothing to do with it. Its just another arrow in their quiver.

Girls alwasy do well in school. Girls behave better than boys and like sitting for hours reading and typing papters. Plus, they have teachers to protect them from the rotten boys.

But, out here in the real world, away from the ivory towers of academia, she definitely needs to be protected. Sarah Palin is an aberration. A woman who can hunt, shoot,fish and actually take care of herself. She doesn't need no left wing prick looking out for her.

BTW, this is what cartoonist Jeff Danziger had to say when he was accused of depicting Condi in a very stereotypically racist manner in one of his cartoons:

"Nothing racist about it at all. Just the standard lies told by a political operative, out of her depth, who happens to be African-American. Whenever this administration is in trouble they send out Condi Rice because the press, which is mostly white and male, gives her a far easier treatment than they would a white male."

Garage: You note Rice's credentials but you do not delve into her actual resume suggesting you are pretty easily impressed. You fail to give us McCain's resume and obviously fail to recite his resume. Compare the Wiki of the two. Hers is, shall we say, light.

You've been fishing and hunting with Palin? Dude, I thought Alaska was for the fit.

There is a no-longer-shocking consistency to the inconsistency of the Left. What was not true yesterday is terrible true today. What was terribly true yesterday is risible nonsense today.

The Left. Has. No. Principles. Not really.

It was in fact Professor Althouse who first helped me to see this truth with her observations regarding the Left's faux concern about "civility". All they care about is the Goal and in order to achieve the Goal they need power. Everything else is contingent.

Have you ever seen her hunt or fish without someone that does know how?

One of the first rules of hunting or any other risky sport, especially in Alaska where bears abound and idiots like you die, is to not go alone, preferably in groups of three or more. In a group of three, if one person gets injured, one stays with the injured person and the third goes for help.

Like a typical Democrat/liberal, you promote ignorance to further your left wing goals. I suggest you pull a Christopher McCandless and show us how a leftie tough guy handles the Alaskan wilderness. In the mean time, your time would be better spent watching over your fragile left wing females.

Ah a woman who goes to a Saturday night fraternity party and lets herself be "used" by five fraternity brothers--er "rapists" walks home to the sorority house at 1030 the next morning in what's left of her party dress. It's called the "walk of shame".

Ms. Rice let herself be "used" by Obozo and his administration on five different television news shows on a single Sunday. Her "walk of shame" just comes a little bit later. She's having it now.

This is why women and particularly minority women should never be hired. They can't be criticized and they can't be fired. In the service of Ms.Rice you screw things up for all women. Nice work ladies.

ambienisevil: Monica Lewinsky was 21 and an intern. Susan Rice is, what, 48 and has held various government positions since the '90s (with some time in think tanks etc. during the Clinton administration). I don't think the two situations are analogous.

I haven't, and from what I've seen how she handles fishing rods and firearms, that's probably a good thing.

A) Your claim to be a hunter, fisherman, etc., have no meaning, since you are so willing to deceive.B) Show links to proper practice to support your claims. At least we can find if you are cherry picking words to suit your purpose.

I'm not saying you are correct or incorrect, only that there is no reason to listen to a weasel like you.

My opinion is that B.O. wasn't really protecting her. She was reporting on the facts that were given to her. She didn't come up with them, she just reported them. Basically, Obama was saying "Don't shoot the messenger". That's my take on it.

And lets not forget that the dems had no problem questioning the competence of Sarah Palin, who, last I heard was a female.And not just question her competence. But make actual SEXIST attacks on her. I don't think for example that the porn I dusty are going to make a "Nailin Palin" type movie about Susan Rice, do you? (It does help that Sarah Palin was actually hot)In other words, YET AGAIN, libs are acting like complete hypocrites.

Boo hoo. Gwen Moore thinks boys play too rough. The meanies. Then she plays it rougher crying racism. Basically she's asking for a form of affirmative action. She thinks a black woman who aspires to be the second female black Secretary of State needs special rules to protect her. Condi Rice did not need this help because she was actually white, I suppose.

Those who question her are treating her as an equal. They are questioning her competency, but that is their right, and frankly their obligation, if they find her to be incompetent. Women, if they actually want equality, have to be able to swim with the sharks and not cry harassment and sexism if their feelings are bruised because some people find they're not doing s good job.

It's the same thing with the dems reflex charge of racism whenever people question Obama's record. If blacks want a job that is based on merit, then they have to expect that they will not be treated special simply because they are black. (This goes for any and all minorities and even majorities).Those make the sexism/racist charges are the ones practicing racism because they are basically suggesting that women and minorities can't actually do the jobs assigned them and need to be treated with kids gloves when it gets tough.

If you need to be treated with kids gloves to do your job, then you don't deserve that job, unless everyone in your position is similarly treated with kids gloves.

gutless said...This is why women and particularly minority women should never be hired. They can't be criticized and they can't be fired. In the service of Ms.Rice you screw things up for all women. Nice work ladies.

This is exactly the ultimate result of affirmative action. People can be creative in protecting themselves from laws like these. There is a natural cost/benefit analysis that causes either overreach or exploitation.

Drudge's point is simple. A person died. Now some people are whining about a high level official who said things that weren't true to the American people, and now it's an attack on a vagina and (I learned today) a black person.

Let's say you are the person who was duped into saying things that weren't true. What is your reaction? I would say angry. And if you have any integrity whatsoever, being rewarded for lying with some new big post is wrong.

Oh, crud, I forgot. These are the same Democrats who idolize Bill Clinton, alleged rapist, who got up in front of the American people and lied to them, and their golden god Obamao. There is simply no hope to look to the press to unravel this. You have to have some kind of integrity, and it's obviously lacking.

Oh wait, I can't complain about this. I should bend over and say "A little gentler, please," like Farmer would have us all do.

My opinion is that B.O. wasn't really protecting her. She was reporting on the facts that were given to her. She didn't come up with them, she just reported them. Basically, Obama was saying "Don't shoot the messenger". That's my take on it.

Barry is protecting Barry.

He figures if he looks like Crusader Rabbit, it puts the spotlight on her and not him.

Where are the harpies that stood behind Pelosi and screamed "DISCRIMINATION!!! BOO!!!" when she was asked if she and other congressional leaders were basically to old to lead and step aside so that younger members can revitalize the political stage?

Dante writes: Now some people are whining about a high level official who said things that weren't true to the American people, and now it's an attack on a vagina and (I learned today) a black person.

A black vagina is the most sacrosanct symbol a white man can dare to criticize. Of course McCain and Graham didn't target her because of that, but that's essentially what the ladies in Congress are defending. It looks really ugly and will not end well.

Even in a town that rewards sharp elbows and brusque personalities, Rice has managed to make an impressive array of enemies — on Capitol Hill, in Foggy Bottom and abroad. Particularly in comparison with the other person often mentioned for the job, Sen. John Kerry, she can be a most undiplomatic diplomat, and there likely aren’t enough Republican or Democratic votes in the Senate to confirm her.

Back when she was an assistant secretary of state during the Clinton administration, she appalled colleagues by flipping her middle finger at Richard Holbrooke during a meeting with senior staff at the State Department, according to witnesses. Colleagues talk of shouting matches and insults.

And this is the delicate damsel Obama got all puffed up about. Hilarious.

It's only black democrat women, apparently, who need the affirmative action. No one ever thought twice about criticizing Condi Rice. But, then, she's a republican. And deserved everything she got because of that, according to these people.

gutless said...This is why women and particularly minority women should never be hired.

Sometimes you can almost see the universe in a grain of sand. This is an excellent example.

Rice has a position. The position is being attacked. Rice is the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., or another way of thinking of this, is the representative of the US to the world government. She stood up willingly, and put her position on the line, when she stated wrongly the attack was on account of a youtube video (Ann was on to that right away). If she was duped, her position requires that she honors it by seeking out those who degraded it, and destroy those people, and somehow explain to the world how it is OK she mislead them. But, she is silent. And suddenly, there is this new opportunity for her to rise in the ranks. Is it her Vagina that is so sweat? Or her color?

Ann points out that women coming to protect her because she has a vagina, and golden skin, has the effect of diminishing all women (and all minorities with color, though I have no idea if she felt this about Clarance Thomas). They can't handle the heat, by implication. I don't think that's what's going on.

Should not the press demand to know why the UN Ambassador was embarrassed in this way? A woman, black at that, being used as a stooge? Well, apparently not. Like with Bill Clinton, alleged rapist, Peyronie's diseased, it's OK. Race, Vaginas, political correctness, all of these are tools of the press. They want to be relevant. How can they be relevant if their Gods aren't God's after all?

For years the press has told us we can afford the latest entitlement because we are a rich country, thereby bypassing the merits of the program. What if they were duped, by the Ownership class? What if all these programs eventually benefit the Ownership class? Despite my need for fresh vegetables, as repeated by the press, was merely an Ownership class method of pushing down wages, and particularly of a specific minority group?

What if the stupid, idiotic press was wrong, being led by the pied piper to destructive ends, and leading the rest of the country along?

I do not blame Obama or other Democrats in power for these things. I blame the press. And behind that, the galactically stupid Universities.

While I hope there is enough individualism and integrity left in America, unfortunately, I think we are headed exactly back to where we came from, to the land of Kings, Queens, and inter-generational rights. This time legitimized by money, and the idiotic left.

Dante fuck you, you don't get to demand anything from me, here there or anywhere. You and those like you, lost this election and will continue to lose, you are extremists, racists nd misogynists, just read this thread, it enough to turn any normal person's stomach.

Remember, keep marchin' >>>>>>>>> and you women folk, make sure you march in the rear, like good little women. The men on the right want to make sure you can take a lickin' and keep on tickin, but above all, know your place>>>>> in the rear.

Dante fuck you, you don't get to demand anything from me, here there or anywhere. You and those like you, lost this election and will continue to lose, you are extremists, racists nd misogynists, just read this thread, it enough to turn any normal person's stomach.

"How do you write women so well?"

"I think of a man, and take away reason and accountability."

I am curious about one thing, where you married when you had your daughter, or was she an "Oops." Is her name Allie?

Putting the childishness aside, you had some reason to vote for Obama, some reason as to how he is going to make the US, or the world, a better place. Shouldn't it be straight-forward to express that?

Really, if I didn't have such contact with such amazing women, your argument might start making me think women are just plain stupid.

Like you've been telling everyone how they suck because so many people voted for Obama. So surely, the reasons ought to be easy for you to say? Or maybe not.

Dante, Allie Oop was my moniker before I changed it to Inga, my real name. When I did this it was no secret, and many here know why I did it. So what's your point?

You are a jerk, one of the biggest jerks here, so you can wear the honor proudly. And I pity the women you are associated with because you are a misogynist, that has been very evident in almost every thread you comment in.

There is no shame in it. 42% of women in the US now do. And of single women, 79% do. They suck off the rest of society so they can wag their twats around, and have others pay for it.

Since you won't tell us what's so good about Obama, and this is one of the things he wants to encourage, what's wrong with attributing it to you?

It's all good, right?

Now, I'll tell you what's offensive. A stupid bitch who says "See, I'm right because others agree with me, you people are all stupid and assholes," without saying way.

It's easy for you to get out of this. Simply tell us, in your words, how Obama is going to make the US better. To a lot of people, that includes being able to work, feeling their kids are going to do better, and that it's not fake (alla big deficits).

So provide us some news here, Allie. Tell us how it's going to work over the next four years. If you are right, and everyone else is a doom-sayer, then you can dance and dance and I'll say "Congrats." Really, I will.

Dante, I have four children, three daughters and one son, all born in wedlock, fathered by one man, my husband, not that it's any business of yours.

I am widowed so, yes that would technically make me single, again none of your business. I worked over 30 years as a nurse, paid taxes for all those years, actually I worked from the time I was 15, again none of your business, except that you are trying to portray me as the "typical woman Obama voter", who you assume fits your prototype, of a "taker not a maker", what a dope you are.

Well, OK, then. Have at it with your choices (see 8:48). They won't make you better.

I look at Susan Rice and see a woman you must have lied or suppressed ideas and perhaps truth at the behest of someone else...I'm supposed to respect that--WTH? The matter is too grave to ignore--it's not a sex scandal--it's deaths.

I look at Susan Rice an see a privileged woman--I'm supposed to cut her slack for being a woman or being black--WTH?

Look who comes out to defend Rices's choices of expression she made on Sunday, 9/16/12...why are they mainly black women if not out of tribalism?--WTH?

Maybe it wasn't tribalism when Dick Cheney or other pasty dudes spoke up to defend the the other Rice.

What, by saying you might have had a kid out of Wedlock? Really, Inga, or Allie, whatever, that's so presumptuous on your part. I mean, after all, Obama is all for single moms, like Julia. You are being judgmental. You have no more moral authority than any hoe waddling her twat around to have kids on other people's labor.

You must agree with that, you voted for Obama. You voted for more of that. That's the reason, right, Allie? You want more hoes in the world sucking off the good people that keep it zipped.

To say Susan Rice was a simple talking head sent out to parrot silly twaddle and then defend her shows the caliber of the average Dem House member.

Of course, Patrick Murphy and Pelosi gloating about defeating Allen West saying he can go back to Georgia---no Republican would call that racism, even though it shows the crude buffoonish character of the average [actually daddy's boy Murphy is below average] Dem House member. Pelosi's tawdry behavior and idiotic remarks make her the Joe Biden of the House of Representatives.

Yeah Dante, us hoes gonna take over your world, kick you scrawny ass to the curb, after we take all your money. Be scared, be real scared....

We're comin' for big bad white men like you!LMAO!

No, you will just get your brown shirts to do it for you. Really, Inga. Why don't you tell us what you expect the Obamao to do? Besides putting people in jail in the middle of the night to distract the public.

It's easy, you know. Tell you what. I will write down what I think will happen, and post it, right after you do, or even vice versa.

Here are the metrics I think are important:

% of part time workers who want to be full-timeGDPMedian Household IncomePer Capita costs for Health InsuranceInflation

Inga wrote: Keep it up guys, next election the women's vote voting Democrat will be up to 65% instead of a mere 55%.

You're probably right, Inga. By that time the debt will be 20 trillion, unemployment will be rampant, the Middle East will be in flames, Iran will have nukes - maybe even suitcase nukes. But the price of birth control pills will be up to $15 a month and it will be the Republicans fault.

Please, don't touch the delicate liberal females in congress. They are diverse! and that makes you a racist. These delicate liberal females can lie about anything they want. You should just bow down and worship them.

And Althouse provides a blog post for the men folk to vent their spleens at black vaginas.

Keep it up guys, next election the women's vote voting Democrat will be up to 65% instead of a mere 55%.

a lot of women might view your view of other women as paternalistic. Did you ever question Palin's competence on these boards? I'f so then you're a hypocrite.if not, was it because she was a woman and you can't be critical of women? What is women's lib to you? women should be treated as equals and get equal pay, but not have to actually deal with equal responsibility for their work? We should treat women as equal and give them the same opportunity, but its back to women and chiden first if we're on a sinking ship?You have a very strange sense of entitlement for women, but your criterion suggests they can't actually or shouldn't actually be able to make it to the Slhow.

Remember, keep marchin' >>>>>>>>> and you women folk, make sure you march in the rear, like good little women. The men on the right want to make sure you can take a lickin' and keep on tickin, but above all, know your place>>>>> in the rear.

you seem to,want women to take their spot in the front, even if they aren't capable of it and want to hold people,accountable for criticizing them if they don't do the job well. (Andoif course you're resorting to rank sexism to make your case).Why do you think women should have positions in the front. Because they earned that position, or because they're women? I have no problem with women taking roles in govt. but unlike you I'm not sip uttering that because they are women they can't be confronted.

Tell me, what about Palin? what about Michelle Bachmann? It seems like your standard is, if its a democrat then to question them is racist and sexist. But if its republicans, then those bitches are crazy and we can be as insulting as we want.

So not only are you arguing that women should be treated like dainty creatures who should get paid for top level jobs, but not have to deal with the responsibility of said jobs, you're an awful hypocrite about it.

Are you calling the POTUS a "pimp", or is that Rep. Gwen Moore to whom you refer... Although I have to say that the congresswoman would be really stunning in a day-glo purple, genuine-ermine-trimmed jumpsuit. But maybe President Obama not so much.

A timely and pertinent article and especially so for us here in Australia.

We have a female Prime Minister, leader of the government who attempts to avoid scrutiny and accountability through the parliamentary process by playing the gender card. She has branded as misogynist, a hater of women, the Leader of the Opposition, whose job it is to hold the government to account for its policies. A man who is married to a highly competent wife who runs a community child-care centre and a man who is the father of and three daughters and is the brother of three sisters who are no shrinking violets.

As a professional woman who has work successfully for over 35 years in what is essentially a 'man's world' I find this kind of thing demeaning to say the least.

Not only that it has put back the cause of women in public and political life half a century, calling into question the capacity of Australian women to be in leadership position simply because they are women and should not be subject to the same scrutiny and accountability as men